“Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no… — Nael Gharzeddine Copy Share Image
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“You should ask more questions; it is good for the mind and soul. Questions are doors in the castle of knowledge. Treasure… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad… — Kevin Revolinski Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do… — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The satiation level beyond which experienced well-being no longer increases was a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas (it could… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under… — William Hart Copy Share Image
“May 20 Coming Out Of Isolation "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Arthur Less is the first homosexual ever to grow old. That is, at least, how he feels at times like these. Here,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Nonsubordination is the simple, unspectacular struggle to shape one's life. It is people's reluctance to give up the simple pleasures of life,… — John Holloway Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
“For strength of character in the race as in the individual consists mainly in the power of sacrificing the present for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends." "Sounds like a modest goal." "Yes,… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists,… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
